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Counselors fear that little will change until society begins to view teenage gambling with the same alarm directed at drug and alcohol abuse. "Public understanding of gambling is where our understanding of alcoholism was some 40 or 50 years ago," says psychologist Jacobs. "Unless we wake up soon to gambling's darker side, we're going to have a whole new generation lost to this addiction...
...Alarm clocks will jolt about 6700 students from their brief vacation mode this morning, as yet another semester gets underway...
...deafening," Kelsen recalled on Friday. "It ripped me out of bed. I turned on army radio and there was nothing special--there was music, and I thought it was a false alarm...
...parents try to force masks onto the petrified youngsters. Many people are shaking. Some pray. Most just wait and stare at the ceiling. I have my Walkman tuned to army radio and wait impatuently for an update. The all clear siren sounds 45 minutes later. It was a false alarm...
...Education official in charge of civil rights, announced a startling reinterpretation of existing federal anti-discrimination laws. College scholarships exclusively earmarked for minority students are illegal, he declared, and institutions that offer them may face a cutoff of federal funds. Colleges and universities around the country immediately set off alarm bells and sent the Administration scrambling to clarify a policy that Williams had apparently enunciated without consulting the White House...